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Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe

Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe

Mayr, Otto

Paperback

Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, Book 8

Sports GeneralGeneral SociologyBritish History

ISBN10: 0801839394
ISBN13: 9780801839399
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 1989
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.29
Language: English

Perhaps never in history has society been so fascinated with a single machine as when, in early modern Europe, the clock evolved into a major cultural image, widely used in literature, science, and especially Cartesian philosophy. Yet in England, there was greater interest in a different class of technology-the feedback device, such as the safety valve on a steam engine, that could control itself internally;self-regulating systems were hallmarks not only of practical technology but also of the abstract theories of Newton and Adam Smith.

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